You need to get calories from somewhere, should it be from carbohydrate or fat?

Friday, January 15, 2016

Paignton Zoo

So funny that both articles come from Paignton Zoo in Devon. Has anyone contacted the victims of Lynne Garton's Going Ape "Evo Diet"? To tell them to knock off the fruit and live on raw kale leaves? Good enough for monkeys....Luckily Garton's stupidity seems to have done no permanent damage to it's victims, beyond 12 days of flatulence in the "study"!

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According to a book"A zoo in my luggage " by a famous british naturalist Gerald Durrell the most desirable treat for monkeys he kept were grasshoppers. People often misunderstand what animals in their care really want. I remember how a lady who kept chickens described with a revolt show her hens ripped apart and devoured almost instantly an unfortunate mice who was careless enough to run into the chicken coop.

The juxtaposition of these two articles is very revealing. I would rather take dietary advice from a veterinarian than a doctor or dietician. (This fits in nicely with Peter's self-described "unblinkered" views of biology).

Omnivore chickens... Yeah, I think we generally underestimate how much our otherwise corn-fed feathered friends like meat. Two winters ago I found a very old piece of turkey in my freezer, so old that it was no longer to be trusted. I defrosted it and chopped it up to tiny pieces for the crows in the garden. Little grain eater birds, such as sparrows, cleared the bird feeder in a few minutes before the crows had a chance to wake up... What an eye-opener!Absolutely agree with Gary otherwise -- love reading hyperlipid for that reason. Thanks Peter!

When I was a young girl, one of the funniest sights I can still see in my minds eye, was our chickens chasing each other, for over an hour, trying to get a fish head away from one another. Entertaining as all get out!

About Me

I am Petro Dobromylskyj, always known as Peter. I'm a vet, trained at the RVC, London University. I was fortunate enough to intercalate a BSc degree in physiology in to my veterinary degree. I was even more fortunate to study under Patrick Wall at UCH, who set me on course to become a veterinary anaesthetist, mostly working on acute pain control. That led to the Certificate then Diploma in Veterinary Anaesthesia and enough publications to allow me to enter the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia as a de facto founding member. Anaesthesia teaches you a lot. Basic science is combined with the occasional need to act rapidly. Wrong decisions can reward you with catastrophe in seconds. Thinking is mandatory.
I stumbled on to nutrition completely by accident. Once you have been taught to think, it's hard to stop. I think about lots of things. These are some of them.

Organisation (or lack of it)!

The "labels" function on this blog has been used to function as an index and I've tended to group similar subjects together by using labels starting with identical text. If they're numbered within a similar label, start with (1). The archive is predominantly to show the posts I've put up in the last month, if people want to keep track of recent goings on. I might change it to the previous week if I ever get to time to put up enough posts in a week to justify it. That seems to be the best I can do within the limits of this blogging software!